WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – What’s a Purdue-IU game day, Tuesday in this case, without a reference to the most infamous moment in the in-state series – the time when IU coach Bobby Knight threw a chair from the Hoosiers’ bench across the Assembly Hall floor?

Purdue University Surplus Store threw fuel on the rivalry with its one-day “Toss a Dollar Sale Day.”

Bob Knight created an indelible memory when he heaved a chair across the court during a game.(Photo: AP file photo)

Some 78,000-plus views – and a healthy bit of trolling, on both sides of the IU-Purdue divide – later, the Purdue Surplus Store team was busy offloading more than half the 424 chairs all sorts set out on the south campus warehouse floor for the afternoon sale.

“It’s been fabulous today, one long line after another,”said Susan Ticen, who manages sales at marketing for the 6,000-square-foot space at 700 Ahlers Drive, where everything from dorm furnishings to desks, computer monitors to football cleats, milk cans to trash bins goes for resale.

“I’m not sure Bobby Knight would have wanted to throw a lot of these,” Ticen said.

Staff at Purdue University Surplus Store, 700 Ahlers Drive, West Lafayette, sets out more than 200 chairs, all priced at $1, in a Bobby Knight-themed sale timed for Tuesday's Purdue-IU game in Bloomington. During a Purdue-IU game in 1985, Knight threw a chair across the floor at Assembly Hall to protest officiating.(Photo: Dave Bangert/Journal & Courier)

When Knight’s temper got the best of him on Feb. 23, 1985, after getting a technical foul in a game Purdue eventually won 72-63, the chair the coach skipped across the Hoosiers’ home court was the red, molded plastic variety.

Ticen said this was the second consecutive year for the Knight tribute sale.

“We sell a lot,” Ticen said. “We have an abundance of chairs right now. Office chairs, you name it. All a dollar. There’s no rhyme or reason when we get them. There’s no schedule. It just happens. … So, the game comes at a good time.”

The Indiana University Surplus Stores, not to be outdone, posted a similar sale for Tuesday at its Bloomington location.

“We’re felling nostalgic about the Indiana-Purdue game on Feb. 23, 1985, which means our commemorative $1 CHAIR SALE starts tomorrow,” the IU Surplus Stores posted Monday on Facebook. “Come THROW a chair in your car! … Get a good KNIGHT’s sleep and we’ll see you tomorrow when we open at noon.”

The post about the Purdue sale brought its share of taunts from IU backers, as the comments stacked up into Tuesday.